Re: prerelease 4

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:02:29 -0600, Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
>> 
>> ... 0.91-pre4.tar.gz....  ... will hopefully be the final version.
> 
> I thought I'd be the first to compile it on NetBSD, but I'm missing
> something, apparently.  I have freetype-2.1.3.  
> 
> $ ../configure --enable-gnome
> ...
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.1)
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/pkg/bin/pkg-config
> checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... yes (version 2.2.1)
> checking for pango >= 1.1.5... yes
> checking PANGOVERSION_CFLAGS... -I/usr/pkg/include/pango-1.0
> -I/usr/pkg/include/glib/glib-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/lib/glib-2.0/include  
> checking PANGOVERSION_LIBS... -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,--export-dynamic
> -L/usr/pkg/lib -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl
> -liconv -lm  
> checking for pangoft2... yes
> checking PANGOFT2_CFLAGS... -I/usr/pkg/include/pango-1.0
> -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/pkg/include/glib/glib-2.0 -I/usr/pkg/lib/glib-2.0/include  
> checking PANGOFT2_LIBS... -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -Wl,--export-dynamic
> -L/usr/pkg/lib -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0
> -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lm  
> checking for FT_Init_FreeType in -lfreetype... no
> configure: error: Can't find FreeType library
> 
> $ pkg_info -L freetype2 |grep lib
> /usr/pkg/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftstdlib.h
> /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.a
> /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.la
> /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.so
> /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.so.9
> /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.so.9.2

I'm suspecting that them being in /usr/pkg/lib is what confuses configure.
You can check that by looking at config.log and see what the failed test
looks like.  Ah, now I figured out how to tell AC_CHECK_LIB to use other
libs.  Try this patch and let me know if it works:

===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/dia/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.187
diff -r1.187 configure.in
64c64
<   AC_CHECK_LIB(freetype,FT_Init_FreeType,have_freetype=true)
---
>   AC_CHECK_LIB(freetype,FT_Init_FreeType,have_freetype=true,have_freetype=false,`freetype-config --libs`)
78c78
<        FREETYPE_LIBS=-lfreetype
---
>        FREETYPE_LIBS=`freetype-config --libs`

-Lars

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